Gene Heskett:
> On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote:
>> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes:
>>
>>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it
>>> do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of
>>> the accessing client as long as the client can handle the https
>>> stuff this conversion will return to the client?
What you want to do requires that you understand the basics of Apache's
configuration mechanism. You should really start with that.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/getting-started.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/bind.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/configuring.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/urlmapping.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/vhosts/
That's really just the basics so you know where to put random things you
find on the internet. For your use case, these should also be helpful:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/ssl/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/rewrite/
What the upstream Apache documentation does not mention (or care about)
is that Debian has its own way of splitting up Apache configuration
files. If a random (not Debian- or Ubuntu-specific) tutorial tells you
to change your httpd.conf then this is most certainly not the way to do
it in Debian.
>>> I tried putting those 3 lines quoted numerous times at the bottom of
>>> the httpd/conf/httpd.conf, but that killed local access so I assume
>>> it also killed external access too. And its failure did not
>>> generate an error.log entry.
The bottom of your httpd.conf might be the wrong place to put it. It
really depends on your local configuration which we do not know. Do you
have a plain Debian installation that you did yourself or do you use an
image from a hoster or any other company? What changes have you done to
your configuration?
What Debian expects most admins to do is drop their own virtual host
definitions into /etc/apache2/sites-available/ and use a2ensite to
enable them. Global configuration directives can be placed in
conf-available/ (use a2enconf).
>>> Something was said about the AllowRedirect settings in httpd.conf,
>>> but it did not specify what to change it to.
Don't touch httpd.conf, it will probably not do what you want to
achieve. Instead, edit the virtual host you are using.
> Chuckle, point taken, used your search string and got smarter hits for
> apache2. Since my domain registrar is namecheap, I'm reading this link:
> <https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9821/38/redirect-to-https-on-apache>
Your domain registrar is irrelevant here. Look for
Debian/Ubuntu-specific tutorials after reading up on the basics.
> Syntax error on line 71 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf:
> Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not
> included in the server configuration
> Action 'start' failed.
Apparently the header module is not enabled in your configuration. You
can do so by running "a2enmod headers".
> If you install the ssl-cert package, a self-signed certificate will be
> automatically created using the hostname currently configured on your
> computer.
If your machine is publicly available, there is really no reason anymore
to use self-signed certificates -- except for testing, probably. If your
configuration works with your self-signed certificate, you should
consider using Let's Encrypt.
> So in internal name and the one in the sig don't match?
> So which name will it use if I run the above cert generator command?
Nowadays you can run more than one VirtualHosts even with only one IP
address. You just set up regular virtual hosts which use their own
certificates.
I cannot comment on the other errors you are getting, but (just in case
I didn't stress it enough :)) I think your life will become a lot easier
once you master the basics of Apache. The creation of SSL certificates
actually becomes a lot easier with Let's Encrypt.
J.
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